Combined tag and toy.



M. A. POTVIN.

COMBINED TAG AND TOY. APPLICATION FILED MAY20. me.

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MARY AMELIA POTVIN, or DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OFONEHALF TO EUGENEn. ROBB, or DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

COMBINED TAG AND TOY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 20, 1917.

Application filed May 20, 1916. Serial No. 98,819.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARY AMELIA Por- VIN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State ofMichigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in CombinedTags and Toys, of which the following is a specification.

This invention comprehends an improved novelty and has as its primaryobject to provide a device of this character which may be employed as asymbolical identifying tag to be sold to the purchaser with a View toraising funds for charitable or other purposes and which will be adaptedto provide a toy after having served its purpose as a tag.

The invention has as a further object to provide a device of thischaracter employing a figure representing the human hand, which figuremay be used as a tag to symbolize a helping hand for the purposes abovementioned and wherein the said figure will be provided with an elasticbouncing cord to form a toy with the cord adapted to return the figuretoward the hand of the operator when the figure is struck by the hand.

And a still further object of the invention is to provide a device ofthis character which will be of such simple character that it may beeasily manufactured and placed upon the market.

Other and incidental objects will appear as the description proceeds andin the drawing wherein I have illustrated the preferred embodiment ofthe invention and wherein similar reference characters designatecorresponding parts throughout the several views,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of myimproved device, showing the use ofa padded figure in the form of a human hand, which figure is providedwith a bouncing cord;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view more particularly showing the construction ofthe figure;

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1 and illustrating the use of a flatfigure with the bouncing cord attached thereto; and

Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing the cord attached to the figure toprovide a tag. In carrying out the invention I employ a figure 10preferably of a form to represent the human hand. This figure may, asmore particularly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings be constructed ofmating top and bottom cloth sections between which is interposed asuitable filling or padding 11 or may be constructed from a fiat pieceof cardboard as shown at 15 in Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings, it beingunderstood that I do not wish to limit myself in this regard since thesaid figure may be formed of wood, rubber, metal, or any other suitablematerial and may be hollow. if desired. Mounted upon the back of thefigure at a point substantially midway the ends thereof is a suitableloop or eye 12, and connected to the wrist portion of the said figure isa similar loop or eye 14:. Associated with the figure, is a cord 13which may be of any approved length and is preferably formed of elastic.This cord, when the device is to be used as a tag, is connected at itsextremities with the loop 14: with the said cord forming a 100 forattaching the tag to the clothing of the wearer. As will now be seen, byemploying the representation of a hand, the device may be designated tosymbolize a charitable or helping hand to be sold as a tag identifyingthe purchaser as having extended a helping hand to the raising of aparticular fund for charitable or other purposes. Such tags are usuallyworn on a particular designated day and the present invention thereforecontemplates that the tag may be used as a toy after such day haspassed. To accomplish this end, the cord 13 is detached from the eye lland is connected at one extremity to the eye 12. The cord 13 will thenprovide a bouncing cord which may be grasped at its free extremity in ahand of the operator when the figure 10. may then be struck to cause thesaid figure to bounce away from the hand to be returned by the saidcord. I thus provide a toy which will be found very amusing for childrenor others, and in this connection, it will, of course, be understoodthat the attractiveness of the toy may be easily governed by thecharacter of figure employed. In this way, an inducement may beofferedto purchase the device as a tag in View of its desirability to besubsequently used as a toy.

It will, therefore, be seen, that I provide a very simple and eflicientconstruction for the purpose set forth and wherein but a single cord isemployed Which not only forms an attaching loop When the device is usedas a tag but is also adapted to provide bouncing cord When the device isused as a toy.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patout is:

1. A device of the character described including a tag comprising afigure formed to represent a human hand and adapted to be Worn foridentifying purposes, and an elastic cord forming an attaching loop forthe tag and adapted for connection to said figuie whereby to provide atoy.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a symbolic figure adapted to be Wornfor iden tifying purposes and having a cord connected thereto to providea tag With the said cord forming an attaching loop for the tag andadapted to provide an element for bouncing the figure whereby to producea toy.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

MARY AMELIA POTVIN- [L- 8-] Copies of this patent may be obtained forfive cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington.D. C.

